ACL removal day?!

[Rahul Sundaram]

Christopher Aillon wrote:
> David Woodhouse wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 21:12 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> I would go further. Even for existing packages, package maintainers 
>>> must specify good reasons for retaining ACL's and that must be 
>>> documented explicitly in some prominent place. 
>>
>> Absolutely. And the existing ACLs which were added without the knowledge
>> or consent of the package maintainer should be removed immediately.
> 
> How do we know which ones were added without knowledge/consent?  I for 
> one know about them, and require them for some packages I own.  I don't 
> believe this info is tracked anywhere though.

There is a pretty easy solution to that. Ask the maintainers. New 
package maintainers are likely to be not aware of the current policy of 
automatically adding ACL's to their packages. I suspect many of them 
would prefer to share the work in things that can be done by a group 
like rebuilding packages.

Rahul